Deemed to never see the light of the day, a new species of endemic, troglobiont centipede was discovered by an international team of scientists in the Romanian cave Movile: a unique underground ecosystem, where the oxygen ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2020
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Scientists at the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT) in Mexico recently discovered five new species of parasitoid wasps in Mexico, but the name of one of them sounds a bit weird: covida. Why this name?
Plants & Animals
Oct 8, 2020
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An international team of scientists, including researchers from St Petersburg University, has discovered a new genus and species of bug from the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. It was named Tatupa grafei and classified ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 22, 2020
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An over a century-long mystery has been surrounding the Taiwanese butterfly fauna ever since the "father of zoogeography" Alfred Russel Wallace, in collaboration with Frederic Moore, authored a landmark paper in 1866: the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2020
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Scientists have described a new native Hawaiian land snail species, sounding a rare, hopeful note in a story rife with extinction.
Plants & Animals
Jul 23, 2020
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It would be striking for a seasoned entomologist with decades of fieldwork to discover such a large number of species unknown to science. But for University of Kansas student Rachel Smith, an undergraduate majoring in ecology ...
Evolution
Jun 22, 2020
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For the first time, a complete time-calibrated phylogeny for a large group of invertebrates is published for an entire continent.
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2020
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Podonychus gyobu sp. nov., a second species of the genus Podonychus Jäch & Kodada, 1997, hitherto known only to inhabit Indonesia, is reported to have been found in Kyushu, Japan. The endophallic structures and the larva ...
Evolution
Jun 9, 2020
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A new species proposed to be classified as Critically Endangered of miniaturised stump-toed frog of the genus Stumpffia, found in Madagascar, is named Stumpffia froschaueri after "the man from the floodplain full of frogs", ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2020
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An international research team has discovered a new pygmy seahorse species in Sodwana Bay in South Africa, the first of its kind to be found in the waters around the continent.
Plants & Animals
May 20, 2020
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